• Chainweasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    252·
    1 year ago

    Anything is anonymous if you register with a fake name and email.

      • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
        1·
        1 year ago

        But it really is equivalently pseudo-anonymous. Both are leaking equal amounts of info, assuming the fake email is only used for the one account.

  • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
    21·
    1 year ago

    Looks like Slashdot no longer allows Anonymous Cowards. TIL.

    (I’m not editorializing — that’s what you’d show up as if you posted anonymously.)

  • DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works
    12·
    1 year ago

    There are dozens, maybe hundreds of chans alone, and that’s just one style of message board.

  • QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    In case of 4chan it’s obviously other anonymous imageboards. There doesn’t seem to functionality in Lemmy that would allow for posting without accounts.

    • Andrew@piefed.socialEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Accounts (which contain the private key that signs the headers in your posts, and the public key to verify) are required for ActivityPub to work.

    • china🇨🇳@lemmy.caOP
      32·
      1 year ago

      hmm, maybe I should open an issue on github about it? however it will make moderating communities difficult.

      • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        1 year ago

        Not possible really. The protocol Lemmy uses requires accounts, not only as a soft requirement, but the software your instance would be interacting with requires it to function.

        • RobotToaster@mander.xyz
          2·
          1 year ago

          It could always use an “anonymous” pseudo-account, (ie, have anonymous posts federate as [email protected]), or a pseudo-account per post ([email protected], anonymous2, etc). Thinking about it, the former has the advantage of being easy to block by instances or comms that don’t like it.

    • RobotToaster@mander.xyz
      310·
      1 year ago

      I imagine it wouldn’t be hard to add that functionality to an instance, but given the pearl clutching Lemmy instance admins are prone to it would be defed pretty quickly.

      • KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world
        21·
        1 year ago

        It would be defed pretty quickly because all bots, alt right trolls, pedophiles and anyone looking to share illegal content would instantly flock to it.

        • QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Amen, Sopuli wouldn’t federate with such instance either. It would introduce too much problems. Bad idea.

        • RobotToaster@mander.xyz
          21·
          1 year ago

          From what I’ve seen 4chan seems to be able to keep at least two of those out with captcha and jannnies.

          You’d probably need to limit anonymous posting to local communities to prevent issues though.

      • voracitude@lemmy.world
        5·
        1 year ago

        Tell you what: you go host that instance, with no pearl-clutching. Don’t worry about any knocks at the door, or federal agents abseiling through your windows. You don’t clutch no pearls, right?

        • RobotToaster@mander.xyz
          11·
          1 year ago

          My point was more that instance admins defed for things that are comparatively minor, relative to allowing anonymous posting, not that allowing anonymous posting is a good idea (even if it’s technically possible).

  • tdgoodman@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    The dark web has many truly anonymous forums, if you can tolerate the subject matter.

    • RobotToaster@mander.xyz
      9·
      1 year ago

      Lemmy is pseudoanonymous, not anonymous, since we all have noms de plume.

    • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      Almost, I would guess OP is talking about places to post that doesn’t require accounts.

    • china🇨🇳@lemmy.caOP
      31·
      1 year ago

      actually it depends on which instance you have chosen and the privacy policy of chosen instance. my instance doesn’t require an email so it’s pretty much anonymous like 4chan. but I want to find out some different forum or board that isn’t Lemmy.

      Edit: plus you can’t post without an account on Lemmy.

      • dblsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de
        6·
        1 year ago

        It would be interesting to make a Lemmy fork that doesn’t require login and registers all posts as anonymous@(instance). Would probably get insta defederated by every other instance though lol